How The Ford Model T Took Over The World

26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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.@Bryan_Caplan’s best presentation of the case against education

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Share buybacks limit free cash and managerial excesses

18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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From https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/03/buybacks.html?m=1

Contra Ben Bernanke It’s A Wonderful Life bank run due to absent-minded Uncle Billy’s embezzlement @NZTreasury @reservebankNZ

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Champ and Freeman on what banks also do

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Dumbest #COVID19 idea yet

12 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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Richard Epstein, “A History of Public Utility Regulation in the Supreme Court”

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Steve Kaplan Discusses CEO Pay

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Only 2 general purpose technologies in the 20th century?

07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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Horses and mules held their own for decades against tractors

04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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From https://www.economicdynamics.org/wp-content/uploads/Stokey-Technology-Diffusion-SED-2018.pdf

Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”

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Henry Ford had 450 employees in 1908!

01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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Creative destruction in cameras

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Creative destruction in music

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Fred S. McChesney: Public vs. Private Enterprise

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